When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?